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young- shoots, about which time they retire, and 
conceal themselves in the earth and in joints of 
the tree and chinks of the walls. 
At the approach of spring they ascend the 
trees, as soon as they will afford them any sup- 
port, Through the day-time they retire into con- 
cealments similar to the above, behind the branches, 
and under leaves and fruit. Their dejn-edations 
are sometimes of a serious nature. They prey 
upon the leaves and young shoots, which they 
completely shear off, and are also destructive to the 
fruit at the fore end of its growth. They gene- 
rally keep to one neighbourhood after they get 
fixed, that is, they feed near their retirement. 
It will be necessary to examine for about a 
foot or eighteen inches round about the places 
where their mai-ks appear, behind the branches, 
in crevices or hollows of the walls, and under the 
leaves where they conceal themselves. Owing to 
their being stretched at their full length, and of so 
dingy a colour, it requires the minutest search to 
find them out. I need not add, when they are found 
kill them. 
The Wasp, (Vespa Vulgaris .) — Those fruits 
afford delicious food to the Wasps, and in dry warm 
weather, when they are numerous, which is too 
commonly the case, it will be difficult to produce 
any perfect fruit. 
For their Destruction. — A short time 
before the fruit ripens, a quantity of sour ale 
or beer, (or if not sour it will do, only the 
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